Joanna HershonJoanna Hershon is the author of Swimming, The Outside of August, The German Bride and A Dual Inheritance. Her writing has appeared in Granta, The New York Times, The Yale Review, One Story, Te Virginia Quarterly Review, and two literary anthologies: Brooklyn Was Mine and Freud's Blind Spot.

She is an adjunct assistant professor in the Creative Writing department at Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn with her husband, painter Derek Buckner, their twin sons and daughter. Read More Read Less